[Jprogramming] freadr messed up result

[Chris Burke]

Alex Rufon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is a head scratcher.
> 
> I've been using "freadr" to process outputs of an AS400 system. I've been using this for years without a hitch.
> 
> Now I've got data that becomes messed up if I read it with "freadr". To work around the problem, I used:
>     > cutopen freads 'filename'
> 
> Unfortunately, the problem file I'm processing is around 19MB so I can't provide a sample. Each line of the file is delimited by CRLF.
> 
> I know it's a bit vague but any ideas on the matter would be helpful. :)

freadr requires the file to have fixed-length records. It sounds like
this new file has records of varying length.